CCSD and College of Charleston

EDPD : Digital Storytelling with Movie Maker Instructor: Eva Rutiri, West Ashley High School
Monday to Thursday: June 17, 2013 - June 20, 2013

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Announcements for course:

Monday: Overview of entire course expectations including showcasing digital storytelling examples. The course calendar will cover the following: Monday - completing Sessions 1 & 2, Tuesday - completing Session 3, Wednesday - completing Session 4, and Thursday - completing Session 5. The last session will be used to finalize your curriculum-based project and sharing movie production to the class. Please make sure you have all final assignments and projects posted to your WIKI. We will introduce each student project and share videos. Please review the rubric for the final 3 to 5 minute video. It does need to include images and/or video, music, and narration. If you need to help with narration, I have a mic and we'll do it at the beginning of the class on Thursday.


Project – Curriculum Based Digital Story (30 Points)

Each participant will create and present their own personal digital story (3-5 minutes in length) on a topic of their choice. The digital story should include digital images, music and narration as well as a script and a storyboard.

Curriculum Based Digital Story (30 Points)	Exemplary (6 Points)	Met (3 Points)	Not Met (1 Points)
Curriculum Connection	Connection to curriculum content is clear. Project effectively introduces, teaches or reviews with sounds and images	Connection to curriculum content is clear.	Connection to curriculum content is unclear.
Storyboard	Storyboard is submitted on course portfolio page, evidence of its use as a tool for completing the final project is clear	Storyboard is submitted on course portfolio page, but its use as a tool in completing final project is not evident	Storyboard is not submitted on portfolio page
Digital images /Video	Final project uses digital images and/or video to illustrate the subject of the story. Images work in conjunction with narration to create a visual metaphor	Final project uses digital images and/or video to illustrate the subject of the story	Images/video are present in the story, but seem disconnected or unrelated to narration
Audio/music	Used competently and enhances the story by setting a mood or is used to illustrate a point	Audio/music is used, but presence adds little to story	Audio/music is absent from story
Narration-Delivery	Clear and easy to understand. Delivery is appropriate to topic and enhances the meaning of the words	Clear and easy to understand. Delivery is appropriate to topic	Narration is hard to hear and or understand detracting from story

Please click here for an excellent tutorial to learn the interface and functions for Windows Live Movie Maker which is suited for Windows Vista and Windows 7 computers. It does require a subscription to unlock all of the titles. There is another tutorial from the Microsoft web site that is free and it covers the following areas with Windows Live Movie Maker:

Overview Import photos and videos Edit your movies Edit the audio Choose a theme Share on the web


Please click here for a video about the interface and functions of Windows Live Movie Maker. Also, to learn the basics of creating a movie from beginning to end, please click here.

Please click here to learn how to burn to a DVD for you final Curriculum Based Digital Story 3 to 5 minute video.

Here is a sample demo project for Valentine's Day fans! Please make sure you have opened a Microsoft account with Sky Drive to upload your digital videos projects. Please click below to see the movie. It's not a pretty link but it works! You might need to open and/or log in to your Microsoft account for it to play automatically.

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